Editorial roles Members of a Manila site can be assigned an editorial role if you want to grant them access to write stories or modify the appearance of your site. The site owner is automatically added as a Managing editor of the site and you can have as many editors as you like for each site. Managing Editor Managing Editors are Members with the same privileges as the original site owner with the complete Editor's Only links, including the Prefs, Admin and Bulletins links. Contributing Editor When Contributing editors log in, they see a limited version of the Editor's Only links, without the Prefs, Admin and Bulletins links. Other than those areas, and not being able to edit other people's Messages and Stories, they have the same access as a Managing Editor. Content Editor The Content Editor, is mid-way between the managing and contributing editor roles. The Content Editor can edit all the stories, pictures, and messages on a site like a Managing Editor but can't edit templates and set the various site preferences Unlike contributing editors, they can edit content written by other people.

MCC Manila Site URLs ( Other Manila Site URLs This will allow you to log in to your site if the login link is not visible on your pages. This will allow you to log off your site if the log off link is not visible on your pages. This will allow you to view the profiles of all your site members. This will take you directly to your site preferences page. This allows you to view certain statistics about your site. This will allow members to change their password, once they have logged into the site.

Logging into your site Manila includes a built-in membership system that lets you maintain a database of members to send out bulletins, restrict posting access to the discussion group and to allow selected members to become editors of the site. To start editing and configuring your Manila site, you need to open your Web site in a browser window (Internet Explorer =>5) and login. Steps Enter your address and password. Click the Login button. Notes If you forgot your password, you can just enter your address and leave the password field blank. Manila will send a copy of your password in an .

Changing your password Follow the steps below to change your password for your membership to your Manila site. Steps 1. You can view the change password page for your site by adding "/member/changePassword" to the URL of your Manila site: 2. Enter your current password into the Password field, and your new password into the New Password and Repeat fields. 3. Click the Change Password button.

Adding a story (All Editors) Follow the steps below to add a story to your Manila site. Each story can be a different page on your site like the default story that has the text for your About page. Steps 1. Click the Stories link in the Editors Only menu at the top of the page. 2. Click the Create a New Story link at the bottom of the stories list. 3. Choose a title for your story. 4. You can then add the text for your story. 5. When you are finished, click the Submit button.

Adding a picture (All Editors) Follow the steps below to add a picture to your Manila site. Steps 1. Click the Pictures link in the Editors Only menu at the top of the page. 2. Click the Create a New Picture link at the bottom of the pictures list. 3. Choose a title for your picture. 4. Click the Browse button and locate the image on your computer 5. You can add some text to describe the image, which will be used for the ALT tag to be more accessible for people with disabilities.

Posting a Gem The Gems feature allows you to upload files of any type -- movies, sound files, zip files, spreadsheets, etc. -- to your Manila website. From the Gems page you can find a list of posted gems -- that shows the size and type of the file on disk. It also shows you the URL, so you can link to the file from other pages in your site. If you're a managing editor, you also get a checkbox and a Delete button. You can delete gems by checking one or more to delete, then clicking the Delete button. This removes the gem from your list and deletes the file on disk. There is a limit to the space on disk you may use. The gems list page tells you how much free space you have left in your folder.

How to post a gem Click on Gems in the Editors Only menu bar. Click the Create a New Gem link to upload a new file. You can give it a title -- the title is optional, as with pictures. The title will be the name of the shortcut that's created. If you don't supply a title, the name of the file will be used as the title. Click the Browse... button to choose a file on your hard drive to upload. When you're ready, click the Post New Gem button. Then you'll be returned to the gems list page, and your new gem will be listed at the top.

How to link to a gem You can either copy the link on the Gems page after you have posted a new Gem. Or if your site is configured to create Shortcuts for new gems, you'll normally use the Title of the Gem in Stories and Messages to link to the Gems. The Title is optional for a Gem. If you don't provide one, Manila will create it based on the name of the file you upload.

Using shortcuts Shortcuts are an easy way to include links and pictures in your pages. Instead of having to find the URL, you can add a link or include a picture in a page by enclosing its shortcut name inside "double quotes". When you create a story, post a gem or add a picture, Manila is enabled by default to automatically create shortcuts for them using the title.